Gaspar

Gaspar is a given and/or surname of Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, and also Jewish origin that could refer to:

Names

• The original spelling of Casper; a male's given name
• Saint Caspar, the traditional name of one of the Wise Men in the Gospel of Matthew.
• The name of Arthur's dog in Karl Pearson's novelette "The New Werther". ("Gaspar, faithful hound, who roved/Where’er his master went, beyond all else beloved.”)
• Roberto Luís Gaspar de Deus Severo, Portuguese footballer commonly known as Beto
• Álvaro Gaspar, former Portuguese footballer
• Alexandre-Pierre Gaspar, French information architect
• Alfredo Rodrigues Gaspar, Portuguese military officer and politician
• Boom Gaspar, American piano/keyboard/organ player
• Chuck Gaspar (1938-2009), American special effects artist
• Eduardo César Gaspar, Brazilian footballer commonly known as Edu
• Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau, Spanish play-wright (1842-1902)
• Hugo Gaspar, Portuguese volleyball
• José Gaspar, 18th-century to 19th-century pirate who terrorized Spanish Florida
• Odirlei de Souza Gaspar, Brazilian footballer
• Rod Gaspar, former baseball player
• Gaspar Araújo, Portuguese long jumper
• Gaspar Azevedo, Portuguese footballer
• Gaspar Bergman, Canadian film director
• Gaspar Cassadó, Spanish cellist and musical composer
• Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese explorer
• Gaspar Flores de Abrego (1781–1836), Texan who fought alongside the colonists of Austin; and San Antonio ruled four times (1819, 1824, 1829 and 1834).
• Gaspar DiGregorio, Italian-American organized-crime figure
• Gaspar Fagel, 17th-century Dutch statesman
• Gaspar Fernandes, 16th-century Portuguese musical composer
• Gaspar Gálvez Burgos, Spanish footballer known simply as Gaspar
• Gaspar Méndez (fl.1546), Spanish architect of Badajoz
• Gaspar Méndez de Haro, 7th Marquis of Carpio, 17th-century Spanish political figure
• Gaspar Milazzo, Italian-American organized-crime figure
• Gaspar Noé, French filmmaker
• Gaspar de Portolà, Spanish soldier then governor
• Gaspar Saladino, longtime comic book letterer and logo designer
• Gaspar Sanz (1640–1710), Aragonese baroque composer, guitarist, organist and priest.
• Manuel Gaspar Haro, Spanish footballer

Places

• Gaspar, Santa Catarina, a town in Brazil
• Gaspar, Cuba
• Gaşpar, Moldova
• Gaspar, Gaspra or Gasparalı
• Gaspar Strait, a waterway in Indonesia

In fiction

• Gaspar, a character in Chrono Trigger
• a Muppet character in Barrio Sesamo
• one of the spells in the "Zork" series
• the name of a Buddhist monk who Joshua (Jesus Christ) visits in his quest to learn the Divine spark in the book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore.
• one of three components of the MAGI supercomputer from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion
• A planet in the Ratchet & Clank series, normally the first Ratchet & Clank game
• Gaspar one of the three Magi mentioned in the famous novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace.
• One of the The Simpsons' cartoon characters name in the Spanish version of The Simpsons - Jasper.
• Gaspar, a character in the 2012 novel Unholy Night by Seth Grahame-Smith
• Gaspar de la Croix, A templar agent in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.

The title character in Joseph Conrad's story Gaspar Ruiz.

See also

• Gaspard (disambiguation)